Truly, the fact that Stephanie Hsu was a question mark to even get a nod is stunning to me. How can you love EEAAO and not acknowledge her?

Curse the Academy for snubbing Danielle Deadwyler I’m gonna cry about it until the day I die for real. Such an amazing performance overlooked - sure it’s happened before but this one really really hurt

I genuinely believed that Michelle Yeoh could pull off a win for Best Actress in “EEAAO” . It was a once in a lifetime performance! She took my breath away!!! I hope she wins.

TÁR is my favorite film of the last few years and one of my new all times, but I truly think it would be deserving to win all 6 of its nominations. A masterclass in filmmaking that in 5, 10, 20, etc. years, will be remembered for its immense nuance and gravitas.

Brian you’re easily one of my favorite content creators. Consistently putting out great videos

Watched Tar and loved it but Michelle Yeoh literally did everything everywhere all at once in EEAAO lol she deserves the Oscar.

Fingers and toes crossed for the amazing Austin Butler performance!!!!!! Am so torn between my heart and my head for Michelle and Cate... whichever one wins it will be heartbreaking for the other!! Wouldn't a tie there be just awesome??!!!

Dude. The cinematography of Banshees of Inisherin 😍

Nice to see someone carry on Siskel & Ebert's tradition.👍

As long as Angela Bassett finally wins an Oscar I’ll be happy. She deserved in 1994 and to be nominated for “Strange Days” in 1996. Her monologue in Wakanda Forever is electric

Brian- you have some nerve becoming my most watched KZfaqr in the last couple weeks 😮. I love movies and your commentary is great!

You have all the same choices for actors I do. That EEAAO cast just play off each other so perfectly and are all equally important in the story

If I was in control of the Oscars Angela Basset would have her 4. Michelle would get her due. Jamie Lee would have gotten a trophy for “Halloween 2018” that’s the best performance of Laurie that we have gotten. Glenn Close would get her due and Toni Collette would get her Oscar!!!

Manifesting voters split between Cate Blanchett & Michelle Yeoh & Andrea Riseborough ends up winning would be wonderful to see

Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, and Ke Huy Quan

Austin Butler for Best Actor and Cate Blanchett for Best Actress for sure! I judged the actors' performances objectively and not personally like what Brian is doing.

This is a cool idea. I don’t have too much of a wishlist of sorts as for every category, but for some of the major categories, I do have some favorites at the top of my list that I have in mind. Now, the list could change in some categories if I rewatch some of the films nominated from now and when the Academy Awards happen, maybe even after they’re over and I’m able to reflect on who all got nominated and who didn’t that should have been. My 2022 Academy Award Picks: Best Picture: Banshees of Inisherin Best Director: Martin McDough for Banshees of Inisherin Best Original Screenplay: Banshees of Inisherin Best Adapted Screenplay: Top Gun: Maverick Best Actor: Brendan Fraser in The Whale Best Actress: Cate Blanchett in Tár Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson in Banshees of Inisherin Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon in Banshees of Inisherin Best Original Score: John Williams for The Fablemans Best Original Song: Lady Gaga and BloodPop for Hold my Hand in Top Gun: Maverick Best Cinematography: James Friend for All Quiet on the Western Front Best Animated Film: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Best International Film: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water Best Sound: Top Gun: Maverick Best Makeup: The Batman Again, some of the choices I have can change between now and the Oscars, but my list is going off of what I enjoyed and found to be the best in these categories and the categories I’ve not included are due to me not seeing either any or all of the films nominated. Thanks for the video Brian, this is really fun to see and think about. Take care!

I agree with all of your top 6...except picture. I'm glad EEAT won best picture. And I wish that ties were more of a thing, since best actress was such a tough call. But Farrell MADE the Banshees movie, and Stephanie Hsu was just inspired. Love your take!

Michelle Yeoh for Oscar 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

Loved this video! Are you going to do a ranking of the Best Picture nominees? That would be great! I too loved Tar and it is such a cerebral film. My dad who can't stay put 1 minute was mesmerized by it. Cate is a really gifted actress and Todd Field is at the peak of his powers.

My choices for the above the line categories Picture: EEAAO Director: Daniels Original Screenplay: The Banshees of Inisherin Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking Actress: Michelle Yeoh Actor: Colin Farrell Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan Supporting Actress: Stephanie Hsu

I also would have picked Michelle Yeoh for Best Actress as well just because I was more emotionally invested in her performance and the movie than I was it the other 4 nominees and their movies.

We never see Cate's character coming to terms with who she is and what she's done. Yes she faces consequences, but we never see her either owning up to her misdeeds nor somehow trying to defend them. I suppose that's more on the writer than the actor, but it leaves me feeling both the character and the story are somehow incomplete. Michelle's character, on the other hand, is coming to terms with who she is through most of the movie, and reassessing her actions and relationships in the process. To me that makes her story much more fulfilling.

My personal choices for the Oscar Winners are: Best Picture: Top Gun: Maverick Best Actor: Austin Butler (Elvis) Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (TAR) Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) Best Director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking Best Animated Feature Film: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinnochio Best International Feature Film: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Documentary Feature: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Best Original Score: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Original Song: Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick) Best Production Design: Elvis Best Costume Design: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Best Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Film Editing: Top Gun: Maverick Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Batman Best Sound: Top Gun: Maverick Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water

Well done, Brian. I love watching those Siskel and Ebert specials. I would have liked to hear your pick for the least deserving nomination of the year, since that was a segment they had. I remember when they made fun of The Swarm for getting a best costume design nomination and one of them said they were just wearing clothes out of a catalogue, and one year - I think it was Roger - declined to pick any of the best song nominees because he thought they were all terrible.

Only doing above the line categories but my choices would be: Best Picture - Tar/EEAAO Best Director - Todd Field, Tar Best Actor - Paul Mescal, Aftersun Best Actress - Cate Blanchett, Tar Best Supp Actor - Ke Huy Quan, EEAAO Best Supp Actress - Stephanie Hsu - EEAAO Best Original Screenplay - EEAAO/Tar Best Adapted Screenplay - Women Talking So a lot of overlap, but as good as Michelle Yeoh is in EEAAO, I don't think you can give Tar Picture and Director without Blanchett also winning for her amazing performance.

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Awesome that you’ve given Tar so many of your personal awards including Best Picture. You snubbed it for Best Actress though, which is its greatest strength. I can’t be mad at Michelle Yeoh winning over Cate Blanchett because she’s amazing, but maybe a tie would be the fairest result.

This should be the first tie for best actress. Two awards for both Yeoh and Blanchett!!

Yes, TAR!!!

I believe that Cate Blanchett will win. Hopefully I'm right. She delivered the best performance.

I truly want Michelle yeoh to win but I have a odd feeling with these recent precour wins cate will win her 3rd Oscar. Michelle has only won the golden globe in a seperate category but everything else has gone to cate hopefully this won’t be the case and Michelle will win but so far I’m low key getting Kristen Stewart Spencer PTSD from last year with Michelle yeoh

The 2023 awards season has truly been an unpredictable one 🤯 nothing from Sag aligned with Bafta. With so many major categories being a multi horse race, it could be anyone's win/sweep. I personally hope the Oscars share the love a bit 🤞 Ps. I'm rooting for Blanchett in best actress but EEAAO for film/director :)

Yeah it would be a great Best Actress win. It wouldn't be boring and it wouldn't cause the stir that the BAFTAS caused. Plus it really is a great performance.

EEAT/NNFO - Best film (tie), Cate B./Michele Y./Ana de Armas (tRie) - Best Actress, Argentina 1985 - Best International Film, Hold my Hand - Best Original Song, Puss in Boots 2 - Best Animated Feature, Angela Basset - Best Supporting Actress, Austin Butler - Best actor...

Dear Brian! I really enjoy your videos. So thank you for your devotion to your work. I respect your choices but if you vote for ,Tàr' as best picture and director, you really should give the best actress award to Cate Blanchett. She's the movie. Awarding ,Tàr' without Blanchett feels like awarding ,Birdman' as best picture without giving best actor to Michael Keaton (which feels still odd and unfair to this day). I understand that Michelle Yeoh has a beautiful narrative and delivers a very versatile performance but I predict that generations to come will study Cate Blanchett's work as a masterclass of dramatic acting. It leaves a lot of things concerning the character unanswered, which makes it the more fascinating in its ambiguity, while Yeoh's performance is clearly laid-out and leaves nothing open. Come on, Brian, be reasonable, fair and consequent and give it to Blanchett. Cheers

I also do a little "If We Picked the Winners" routine with other film friends because of Siskel and Ebert. Here are some of my picks: Best Picture- Triangle of Sadness Best Director- Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness Best Actor- Brendan Fraser, The Whale Best Actress- Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Supporting Actor- Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Supporting Actress- Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Original Screenplay- Todd Field, Tar Best Adapted Screenplay- Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Austin butler for best actor at the sags and oscar💗

I don't completely understand the rubric that a lot of folks base the type of performance they believe Best Actor and Actress "should be." The quality of a performance is so subjective and so difficult to quantify, so people like to usually go off of "how dark and dramatic was this" and/or "how close did they get to imitating a real-life person." In Blanchett's case, it's the former. Yes, it's a deep and multilayered performance, but I just don't see why it is seen as so much more complex, skillful, and difficult than Yeoh's performance in EEAAO. Is it because Yeoh's performance has comedic elements and martial arts in it? Is it because it's in a genre film? Or is it because Cate Blanchett looks like 76 (not counting Blanchett's 2014 win or Halle Berry in 2002) of the 78 past Best Actress winners and people don't know how to react to or recognize a POC performer like Yeoh when they're so beautifully portraying the experience of a POC individual? I'm also tiring of the "my heart says Michelle, but my head says Cate" debate. We value logic and pragmatics so much more than our emotions, which is so funny when it comes to interpreting something like art. When I read or hear this, what I take away is "Blanchett's performance checks off all the technical boxes of what I've been conditioned to perceive as an Oscar-worthy performance, but Yeoh's performance made me feel things and made me laugh and cry all at once."

Best actresses Michelle Williams for fableans Best supporting actress Angelina basset for wakanda forever done and dusted.

Picture: Top Gun Maverick Director: Todd Field Actress: Cate Blanchett Actor: Colin Farrell S. Actress: Hong Chau S. Actor: Barry Keoghan O. Screenplay: Banshees A. Screenplay: All Quiet

Austin will win the oscar

Best Actor Austin Butler

Do the preferencial ballot!!!

My picks Picture: eeaao Directing: todd field Actor: colin farrel Actress: yeoh Supporting actor: key Supporting actress: kerry condon

Will the "Bafta so White" backlash influence the Academy?

Stephanie Hsu deserves everything!

MMM I know it's your picks...lol....which is fine and your opinion. I just have to say, is that I viewed the Banshee of Inisherin, and I have to be honest. I been watching a lot of movie critic youtube videos and they says the same thing is they LOVE that movie, and I am here scratching my head is what they love about it? I mean I think it was a bit strange I get dark, but really odd. I love Collin Ferrell in almost everything he is in besides this movie.

I loved Tar so much. I would totally give it Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars. And best part: Blanchett would probably be happier in seeing him win than winning herself - which would make a perfect fit for giving Yeoh her Oscar 🙃

Everything Everywhere all at once deserved to win best picture. It was my favorite movie of 2022 by far!

Great video, Brian! Have you seen the Roger Ebert documentary "Life Itself?" I loved it....highlighted Ebert's passion for movies and the beautiful relationship with his wife Chaz!

Did the critics groups sweep for Farrell make him peak too soon with a (somehow) not-strong-enough narrative? (steady industry vet initially boosted by his modest sex appeal, on top of multiple stellar 2022 outings) Or did they always know Farrell was never going to win? This freaking depresses me-Colin Farrell’s _Banshees of Inisherin_ performance is as staggering as Casey Affleck’s _Manchester by the Sea_ performance, if not more since I vastly prefer Farrell’s film. :( Farrell has long earned the right to enjoy acting in both lead and supporting roles, elevating films with his reliable presence. I just can’t help but view a Butler win as a premature career peak, after which he’ll either settle disappointingly into unremarkable supporting roles like Malek, or languish in a diminishing franchise like Redmayne (barring the occasional _Good Nurse_ or _Trial of the Chicago 7_ turn).

Brian for Academy CEO

Yes very interesting Brian... lots of hard decisions there!! I wonder please, when you do your predictions video, could you kindly spend a couple of minutes quickly explaining how the voting works for the Oscars... different award shows do it differently, right? Are there restrictions on who gets to vote for the different categories? I'm quite unclear so maybe others are too! THANKS!!!

Brian, BP is not actuelly a vote, but a ranking. I wanted to see your raking of it 😅😂

I absolutely love most of your choices (ESPECIALLY Colin Farrell for Banshees, my pick all day long) but your reasoning about cintematography was lame! We'll see how it turns out. :) Thanks for your content.

OMG! I do my own “awards” every year and Nope was my Best Sound winner. I got so excited when you said that LMAO

I think it would be unfair if yeoh did not take home the Oscar. She won Golden Globe. SAG, independent film award an host other film awards for her performance. If she doesn't win then I expect there is some fishy about it.

Michelle Yeoh deserves to win the Oscar. What an incredible performance.

I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of the Best Picture nominees and Women Talking was the best film I’ve seen.

Can you please do the same for this year?

I thought the first 1/2 to 2/3 of Tar was pure brilliance. Then it kind of unraveled as a film for me. However, Cate gave a fantastic performance. And while I didn’t care much for EEAAO, Michelle Yeah also gave a wonderful performance. Best Picture for me was Banshees

Good pick Brian, Lift Me Up does not get the respect it deserves. I hope Tár wins Cinematography, the entire movie looked so beautiful. Driving a car into a garage never looked so good.

I think I need to rewatch Tar again just solely based on the praise you're giving it lol I really loved the first half but then it lost me.

Unpopular opinion but I would go with Ruben Östlund for director

I found the best actor nominations this year to be incredibly weak. I mean I think Collin Farrell would be the best out of them, and would be a deserving winner, but really none of the rest of nominations performances impressed me much. Maybe Paul Mescal, but even that seems like a stretch to say it's deserving of best actor.

new Brian video? oh we won!

Always looking forward to your videos:)

Lol u got 11/20 and I agree with the supporting actress pick

I watched EEAAO and while I think there’s a lot of ideas, great effects, and some heartfelt scene, I don’t understand how Michelle Yeoh is in the same league as Cate Blanchett or, to be honest, any of the other nominees. I understand that a lot of people wanted to see the first Asian best actress winner, but in terms of artistry, complexity, depth, I don’t see what Yeoh did that’s deserving of this award.

1:38 Do you know of a legal way to view Close and The Quiet Girl? These are the two movies that are just impossible to find right now.

Angela Bassett is winning the Oscar for supporting actress and it just feels like it is her time and I can see it and Michelle Yeoh is winning the Oscar for best actress and I can see her walking on the stage and accept her Oscar for best actress

Ironic that you called Pinocchio most unique if the category when it’s a a story which has been remade so many times. There is video on KZfaq ranking all adaptations at there at at least 20.

I also don't think how you could pick Tar as the best movie and Todd Field as best director, but not Cate as best actress? That just doesn't make any sense to me. Cate Blanchett IS the movie. She carries the whole thing! But, I respect your opinion, and I do agree that Michelle Yeoh's performance is great. I think that EEAAO's success is by the ensemble cast, not Yeoh alone. I don't think she carries the movie. But Cate is carrying the whole world on her shoulders in Tar. Big difference!

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Michelle Yeoh all the way! Hopefully the SAG win creates ripples until Oscar night!

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As someone who didn't FULLY like any of the Best Picture nominees this year (I did like several of them IN PARTS), I have a different take. My Best Picture? Triangle of Sadness. If I could have removed some of the vomiting and edited down some conversations between the captain and the communist-hating fellow, I would have loved this movie and would consider it a great film. Some of my other picks are as follows: Actor - Austin Butler, easily Actress - Michelle Williams (because she needs an Oscar and should have had it for Blue Valentine or Manchester By the Sea) Supporting Actor - Brian Tyree Henry (I liked Causeway and Aftersun more than 9 of the Best Picture Nominees) Make-Up - The Whale The Rest? I basically have no strong opinion. What a strange year for the Oscars.

Margot Robbie’s costumes in Babylon are thrown off by her contemporary hairstyle. A 20’s starlet like Jean Harlow would absolutely wear those plunging necklines and shorts, but in combination with the loose hair, Robbie looks more like a 1970s Halston model. If the trailers had showed Robbie in a finger-waved bob, I think movie goers would have a better idea of the films setting and subject matter.

But Angela Bassett did the thing.

Omg I just learned Michelle Yeoh won the SAG! I owe you an apology maybe there is hope for an Oscar win!

My picks Best Picture, TIE between:The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front Director:Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert- EEAAO Actress: Cate Blanchett- Tár Actor: Colin Farrell- The Banshees of Inisherin Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon- The Banshees of Inisherin Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan- EEAAO Original Screenplay: Adapted Screenplay: All Quiet on The Western Front (I know a lot of people disagree with this, but I feel Women Talking is more of a dialogue movie and Remarques novel is as you said pretty hard to adapt) Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front- James Friend Production Design: Babylon VFX: Avatar: The Way of Water Score: Babylon- Justin Hurwitz (So agree with your thoughts on The Fabelmans´ score, the only time I heard the score was on behind the scenes interviews with John Williams) Song: Naatu Naatu- RRR Editing: EEAAO- Paul Rogers Sound: Top Gun: Maverick International Feature: All Quiet on the Western Front Animated Feature: GDT´s Pinocchio Documentary:All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Icon of the year 2022 by TIME... Michelle Yeoh you deserves to Win this coming Oscar If fair judgement....but you are Yellow from asia....how????

Cate wins sorry

I don’t think this guy understands what the word spoiler means

Cate is my choice

"EEAAO" was a complete flop in my country and it was released in 2022 and re-released 2 weeks ago. Here people are going to movies, to see blockbusters: "Avatar", "Quantumania", and "Puss in boots". The Oscar nominees flopped. Honestly, I don't understand why the Academy keeps awarding movies that flop in the box office or they're just medium success in the U.S.. that's not the way to elevate ratings. I'm not gonna watch it this year. "Babylon" is my favorite movie of the year (2023 because it was released in January) and got snubbed in almost everything. Successful films in box office like "Maverick" or "Elvis" are going to get one or two consolation prizes and that's it. If the Oscars are gonna aim only to a certain sector of the U.S. population, they shouldn't bother with broadcasting at all.

As much as I adore Michelle Yeoh's performance in EEAAO, I cannot turn my face away from the brilliant performance that Cate Blanchett gave in Tàr. Just for the sake of creating history, we cannot give awards, come on. Anyways my personal opinion Cate Blanchett wins easily for Tàr

Top Gun - Best Picture EEAAO - Director Banshees - Screenplay Best 3 movies of the year get their due!

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Blanchett's 3rd Oscar will make history too.. Either her either Yeoh. But i agree Field MUST get an Award!

But seriously, that hurt when you said Michelle instead of Cate 😢

movies nobody saw shouldnt win....

Ew another Tar lover. It's a fine, solid, 7/10 film. But how some of you people adore it and think it's even close to one of the best 3-5 films from 2022 is ridiculous. It's mostly boring and simplistic. Feels like a fringe top 10 film.

your facial hair is not even. your left side is missing hair from the mustache to your beard and the right side isn't. I do not agree with your best picture pic, though. EEAAO is going to win.

Saying Yeoh has a better performance than Charloze Theron, Natalie Portman, Helen Mirren, and Blanchett in their wins is such a blasfemy. Well, I rembember when people used to say the same about Marion in "Piaf", but then others came and beat that. That makes me feel people just go with the "fever" of the moment. World aclaims for diversity to win. When all these people, with no exception is part of a very closed and privilidged circle.

I would really love it if TAR swept at the Oscars. It seems like the most elitist, hoity-toity film that the Academy eats up, while spitting in the face of the populist choice in EEAAO, and I kind of hope they do it. I love EEAAO, but it is being overrated as hell and over rewarded as well. I'd like to see something else steal the spotlight, and TÁR is an absolutely incredible film that should end up taking it all.

Sad to see some people don't recognize Blanchet as the truely BEST this year. She's the one above all the others performances, even Yeoh.